SAP Sapphire Orlando • May 12, 2026 • By Invitation Only

The Sapphire
Detox
Drinks

A private rooftop gathering for manufacturing and SAP leaders. No slides. No pitches. No badges.

The rule: first 30 minutes, no one talks shop.

No company names. No job titles. Just humans. At 7:30, the host rings a bell and everything opens up.

Date Tuesday, May 12

Time 7:00 – 9:30 PM

Location Orlando, 5 min from OCCC

Request Your Seat

12–15 seats total

Why We Built This

Sapphire has 20,000 attendees.
This event has fifteen.

Every sponsor at Sapphire is fighting for the same thirty minutes of executive attention. Badge scanners, keynote decks, crowded happy hours. The Sapphire Detox exists because the conversations that actually move things forward happen somewhere quieter, and among people who are not performing for a room.

The rest of Tuesday night

Another packed sponsor reception with 200 people

Product demo disguised as a networking dinner

Keynote recap panel nobody asked for

Badge-scan line at the exhibition hall bar

The Sapphire Detox

Private room, fifteen leaders, two hours, zero pitches

Real conversations about what is actually working in 2025

No host slides. No agenda. No product mentions.

The room where the honest conversation happens

Maximum attendees. Kept small deliberately so every person in the room is worth knowing.

Presentations. No slides, no product mentions, no host talking for 45 minutes. Conversation only.

5 min

Walk or short ride from the Orange County Convention Center. No commute. No Bonnet Creek.

The One Rule

For the first 30 minutes,
no one talks about work.

No company names. No job titles. No "so what do you do." You are in a room with people worth knowing. Figure out who they are first. The business conversation will be richer for it.

Phase 01 • First 30 Minutes

7:00

Humans only. No titles allowed.

Drinks are poured. Introductions are first-name only. The room is warm, quiet, and deliberately free of the one thing that usually dominates every conference conversation: what you sell and who you work for.

No company names

No job titles

No "so what do you do"

No LinkedIn profile recitations

Phase 02 • After the Bell

7:30

The host rings a bell. Everything opens up.

At 7:30 PM, the host rings a bell. From that moment, the floor is open. Talk shop, talk shop extensively, swap cards, go as deep as the room wants to go. The conversations that follow will be different because you spent 30 minutes earning them.

Real talk about industrial transformation

Three curated conversation prompts

Still off the record. Still no slides.

Runs until the room decides it is done

Why this works: Every conference event starts with the same power dynamic: who you are at work defines every interaction. The first 30 minutes strips that away. By the time the bell rings, you are talking to people, not to their business cards. That changes everything about what happens next.

"The one Sapphire invite that does not feel like a Sapphire invite."

The Format

Simple. Intentional. Off the record.

Two hours, three natural conversational threads, and no structure beyond what the room creates. The agenda is not the point. The room is.

7:00 PM

Arrivals and first round

No registration table. No name badges. First-name introductions only. The 30-minute human-first window begins the moment you walk in.

7:20 PM

Host opens the room

Two minutes. No slides. The only thing from IndX all evening: why we built this, the one rule, and what we are curious about.

7:30 PM

The bell rings. Work talk begins.

The host rings a bell. From this moment, the floor is fully open. Titles, companies, industry war stories. Everything that was off-limits is now the conversation.

7:35 PM

Three conversation threads

Prompts introduced naturally. No facilitator. No round-robin. Real talk among senior people who already know each other as humans.

9:30 PM

Close. Or keep going.

No hard close, no awkward sponsor outro. Stay for another drink if the conversation is good.

The Three Conversation Threads

Introduced naturally. Not a panel. Not a structured Q&A.

Thread 01

What industrial AI promise feels the most overhyped right now, and why is everyone still repeating it?

The one nobody says in the keynote session.

Thread 02

Why is connecting ERP, manufacturing execution, and supply chain still harder than every vendor claims?

Everyone in this room has the scar tissue on this one.

Thread 03

Where are manufacturers actually putting budget in 2025? Not what they say publicly. What is actually moving.

Off the record. Nothing leaves the room.

The Room

Curated for candor.
Not for volume.

Every seat is deliberate. The guest list is reviewed before each invitation goes out. If you receive one, you belong in this conversation.

SAP Leaders

SAP Account Executives

SAP Industry & Business Development Leaders

SAP Digital Manufacturing Specialists

SAP Supply Chain & MES Partners

Manufacturing & Industrial Executives

VP Manufacturing / VP Operations

VP Supply Chain

CIO / VP IT (Manufacturing)

Director, Digital Transformation

VP Quality & Compliance (Pharma / Life Sciences)

Plant Network & Operations Leaders

IndX will have two to three representatives present and no more. This is not a sponsored reception with twelve vendor people working the room. The ratio is intentional: guests are the majority.

The Venue

Rooftop. Skyline. Three minutes from OCCC.

Rooftop Lounge & Restaurant • 6th Floor

Kala Rooftop, Orlando

Mediterranean spirit and Orlando skyline views from the 6th floor of 6801 Visitors Circle. Three minutes from the Orange County Convention Center. No shuttle. No Bonnet Creek. Just walk out of the OCCC and arrive.

Address 6801 Visitors Circle, 6th Floor, Orlando

Distance from OCCC 3 minutes • walkable

Format Rooftop cocktails, reserved section

Capacity 12–15 guests maximum

Cuisine Mediterranean • kalaorlando.com

Cost to attend Complimentary, by invitation

Confirmed guests receive full details and a calendar invite.

Request Your Seat

Seats are reviewed,
not first-come.

Attendance is capped at 15 people total. Every RSVP is reviewed to make sure the room is balanced and the conversation is valuable for everyone in it.

You will hear back within 24 hours of submitting. If your seat is confirmed, venue details and logistics follow.

This event is right for you if:

You are attending SAP Sapphire this year in Orlando

You work in manufacturing, industrial, pharma, food and beverage, or adjacent sectors

You have real opinions about where industrial transformation is and is not working

You would rather have one honest conversation than attend five panels

Request an Invitation

All fields reviewed. Confirmation within 24 hours.

First Name

Last Name

Work Email

Company

Title

Your Industry

Why is this conversation relevant to you right now? (optional)

Attendance is not guaranteed. All RSVPs reviewed within 24 hours. Venue details shared with confirmed guests only.

Hosted by IndX • Engineering Industries eXcellence

An SAP implementation partner.
A practitioner in the room.

IndX works inside manufacturing and industrial operations every day. This event exists because we want to hear what executives actually think. Not what gets said on stage.

SAP Implementation Partner Digital Transformation for Manufacturing Engineering Group • eng.it

The SapphireDetoxDrinks

Sapphire has 20,000 attendees.This event has fifteen.

For the first 30 minutes,no one talks about work.

Simple. Intentional. Off the record.

Curated for candor.Not for volume.